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Another local article showing relative ease of implementing crack reductions

By Douglas A. Berman

This effective local article, headlined "Q-C crack cocaine sentences reduced," provides yet another example of how effectively and efficiently lower courts have been implementing the reduced crack sentences that the Sentencing Commission made retroactive. Here are snippets: After playing football for the Iowa Hawkeyes, Ernest Crank turned to dealing crack cocaine. The amount of crack he dealt landed Crank, a native of Chicago, in a federal courtroom in Davenport and then in federal prison for 20 years. Crank has learned much during time so far in prison, court documents say. ?He has taken advantage of every program made available to him,? his attorney, Clemens Erdahl, wrote in a motion to reduce Crank?s sentence. ?His self-education in the law ? is evidence of an excellent mind and the ability to channel his time and energy productively...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 26, 2009 (boomark / email).